OVEN Pork Butt.. Ask me why

We had a hard freeze here in Dallas this past week. Lots of rain and snow and ice. I picked up a 13 pounder yesterday, walked outside a few minutes ago to crank the egg, and the damn lid is closed solid.

I tired using a butter knife to pry the gasket - no luck.

I tried to light the coal from beneath, even used my wife's hair dryer to help stoke - no luck.

My family will be here tomorrow at noon, so I either need a quick fix to get the egg open, or off to the oven she goes.

Any help or pointers on the over route would be helpful. I figure the oven route would be similar to the egg.. in a large turkey pan, v-rack, and cider in the bottom, 300 degrees should have me at 190 by noon.

I had the same thing happen to me. I pulled and got the dome open. I did pull some of the gasket away from the dome in two places. It still sealed tight though. I'll reglue the gasket when it gets warmer.

You could ball up news paper pack it in the ash bin and light it like a chimney starter. Or you could use dryer lint that stuff burns great but sometimes it has hair polyester etc that may not be desirable in your egg.

or if you are cheap like me a garbage bag goes a long way in a place like Texas that doesn't get this kind of weather very often. Obviously depending if the Egg is in a table or a nest. Glad you got it open JWBurns, hope your meal goes as planned.

I raise my kids, cook and golf. When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.

Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season.

Same thing happened to me this morning. XL was frozen shut. AND I keep it covered with the Egg cover.Threw some crumpled news paper in the ash bin, and a firestarter, and got the lump going. Eventually got warm enough to get the lid open. Now I'm rockin away.Surprised that it was frozen shut with having a cover on it.

After going thru a frozen shut Egg this morning, I'm kicking around the idea of putting a 1/8" wood shim between the lid and egg near the handle, to help keep this from happening again.Any opinions on this idea?

Glad to hear you are cooking again. I guess you don't have a crock pot/slow cooker? Our family likes egg pork butt, and we also like slow cooker butt. Nice change of pace. Favorite in the slow cooker seems to be layer of onions, the butt, some rub and a can or two of Dr. Pepper.

Same thing happened to me this morning. XL was frozen shut. AND I keep it covered with the Egg cover.Threw some crumpled news paper in the ash bin, and a firestarter, and got the lump going. Eventually got warm enough to get the lid open. Now I'm rockin away.Surprised that it was frozen shut with having a cover on it.

I have a theory on how this could happen with a cover. You didn't by chance use a drip pan with water in it during the prior cook? I am wondering if the steam permeated the gasket and froze before it could dissipate.